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Bosses can easily be lured into the Parent Trap.

by Rick Baker
On May 26, 2014

Bosses can easily be lured into the Parent Trap...I mean the trap where they treat the people who report to them like Children. 

I have heard bosses say they are like parents and the people who report to them are like children. Recently, while listening to a self-help audio book I heard Brian Tracy recommend bosses behave like parents and treat their people like children. 

I disagree.

Sure, I get the importance of being considerate, caring, compassionate...and having a level of sensitivity, sympathy and empathy. I just do not see those qualities as the defining qualities or Parents. First and foremost, at a very early age the vast majority of us learn our parents are authority figures...in fact, figures of absolute authority. 

Many people, likely the majority of people, carry negative memories of parental-authority with them throughout their lives.

I favour the wisdom of Transactional Analysis

In the workplace, people are adults.

If bosses don't want people to act like Children, bosses have to act like Adults.

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Business Contains Only 3 Things | Family Business and CFFB | Personalities @ Work

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